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Crevecoeur Essay (5 pages)

In your essay, please address the following questions.

1. How does Crevecoeur move from optimism to disillusionment?

2. Can his movement from optimism to disillusionment be said to foreshadow the American national experience? Feel free to refer to specific examples from the literature covered thus far in the class.

3. How can Crevecoeur's observations on the evils of slavery be reconciled with his statement that "We have no princes, for whom we toil, starve, and bleed: we are the most perfect society now existing in the world. Here man is free as he ought to be.."? (Questions posed by authors George McMichael and James S. Leonard)

At the end of the essay, please copy and paste at least five different paragraphs from the letter below your essay. Choose paragraphs from different parts of the letter. Share your annotations at the end of your essay. Create comments boxes (like you did for other homework assignments) and write your reflections as you are reading.

Please follow the Organizational Plan below.

Organizational Plan for the essay:

1. Feel free to begin in such a way that will help you best grab your readers' attentions. Follow through by giving enough background information and presenting your argument in a thesis statement.

2. You may next follow by discussing this question: How does Crevecoeur move from optimism to disillusionment?

3. You can dedicate the next part to discussing this question: Can his movement from optimism to disillusionment be said to foreshadow the American national experience? Feel free to refer to specific examples from the literature covered thus far in the class.

4. The last segments can be dedicated to discussing this: How can Crevecoeur's observations on the evils of slavery be reconciled with his statement that "We have no princes, for whom we toil, starve, and bleed: we are the most perfect society now existing in the world. Here man is free as he ought to be.."? (Questions posed by authors George McMichael and James S. Leonard)

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